Question follow-through · 74955
Public Expenditure
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of trends in the level of UK borrowing costs on government spending.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 4 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 10 Sept 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of trends in the level of UK borrowing costs on government spending.
10 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Sept 2025
Answer published
The Government has published Spending Review 2025, which set departmental spending allocations consistent with the fiscal strategy set out at Autumn Budget 2024 and Spring Statement 2025. The Chancellor will provide further updates at Autumn Budget 2025.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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